The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 6Bell, 1889 |
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... honour of a man who had leaped a certain leap there- abouts , the extent of which was specified upon the stone : ' Why now , ' says my uncle , ' I could leap it in my boots ; ' and he did leap it in his boots . I had likewise another ...
... honour of a man who had leaped a certain leap there- abouts , the extent of which was specified upon the stone : ' Why now , ' says my uncle , ' I could leap it in my boots ; ' and he did leap it in his boots . I had likewise another ...
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... honours in his native country , and meets with mortification instead of respect , was by him considered as a masterpiece in the science of life and manners . The character of Prospero in the fourth volume , Garrick took to be his ; and ...
... honours in his native country , and meets with mortification instead of respect , was by him considered as a masterpiece in the science of life and manners . The character of Prospero in the fourth volume , Garrick took to be his ; and ...
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... Bene- dictine convent at Paris paid him all possible honours in return , and the Prior and he parted with tears of tenderness . Two of that college being sent to England on the mission some 40 ANECDOTES OF JOHNSON His piety •
... Bene- dictine convent at Paris paid him all possible honours in return , and the Prior and he parted with tears of tenderness . Two of that college being sent to England on the mission some 40 ANECDOTES OF JOHNSON His piety •
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... honour and happiness of contributing to its restoration . This task , though distressing enough sometimes , would have been less so had not my mother and he disliked one another extremely , and teized me often with perverse opposition ...
... honour and happiness of contributing to its restoration . This task , though distressing enough sometimes , would have been less so had not my mother and he disliked one another extremely , and teized me often with perverse opposition ...
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... honour ; Well skill'd to sooth a foe with looks of kindness , To sink the fatal precipice before him , And then lament his fall with seeming friendship Open to all , true only to thyself , Thou know'st those arts which blast with ...
... honour ; Well skill'd to sooth a foe with looks of kindness , To sink the fatal precipice before him , And then lament his fall with seeming friendship Open to all , true only to thyself , Thou know'st those arts which blast with ...
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